yep, sorry to say but that stuff is on what your eatin even though you think you washed it off the bacteria is all over your fish. cooking "should" kill it but who knows what kind of septic stew is brewing there. if you cook your fish well I wouldn't think the table is why you got sick but it could be adding strange flavors to em. pelican poop flavored trout anyone? lol.
I make a habit of cleaning my fish at home where I know my cleaning station gets cleaned and disinfected each time I use it. I put the fish heads and guts in a 5 gallon bucket in the chest freezer and next time I go fishing I pop the frozen guts out of the bucket and stick it in the ice chest, when I get to the water I return it to feed the crabs and it doesn't defrost at all so its not messy. for those who go with ice chests filled with ice, just leave it in the bucket and put it in back of the truck till you get to the launch.
I suggest to anyone if they use a cleaning station "somewhere" to keep a piece of scrap plywood in the back of your truck and put it on the cleaning station and don't let the fish you are cleaning or the fillets touch the table, just use it as a bench and not a counter.
just my two cents
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